8½

8½ 1963

World-renowned Italian director Guido Anselmi is going through a creative and personal crisis. He is working on multiple projects at the same time for his new movie, but his childhood memories and sexual fantasies haunt him. The director cannot give meaning to his life and cannot start his new film. Inevitably, he takes a step back and considers the events that contributed to his development in life: his childhood, his church, his relationships with his family, the women who came into his life, and the nightmares that accompany each one. Maybe they should be material for his new movie. Guido begins to reflect on the absurdity of his work, his relationship to art and the opposite sex, the meaning of human existence.